Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 46

by William Blake

Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy A, object 46, "Leaning against the pillars..."

[ PLATE 46 [32] ]

Leaning against the pillars, & his disease rose from his skirtsUpon the Precipice he stood! ready to fall into Non-Entity.

Los was all astonishment & terror: he trembled sitting on the StoneOf London: but the interiors of Albions fibres & nerves were hidden5From Los; astonishd he beheld only the petrified surfaces:And saw his Furnaces in ruins, for Los is the Demon of the Furnaces;He saw also the Four Points of Albion reversd inwardsHe siezd his Hammer & Tongs, his iron Poker & his Bellows,Upon the valleys of Middlesex, Shouting loud for aid Divine.

10In stern defiance came from Albions bosom Hand, Hyle, Koban,Gwantok, Peachy, Brertun, Slaid, Huttn, Skofeld, Kock, Kotope

Bowen: Albions Sons: they bore him a golden couch into the porchAnd on the Couch reposd his limbs, trembling from the bloody field.Rearing their Druid Patriarchal rocky Temples around his limbs.15(All things begin & end, in Albions Ancient Druid Rocky Shore.)